JACKSON CAMPAIGN TO REPAY $122,000

WASHINGTON -- Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign has agreed to repay the government $122,000, ending a lengthy Federal Election Commission audit that initially had questioned how $700,000 in taxpayer subsidies had been spent.

The FEC said on Thursday that most of the $122,000 was not properly accounted for. The Jackson committee will not contest that finding and "will make every effort to repay the amount," said Katharine Boyce, a lawyer for Jackson '88.

PHONE SCRAMBLER TO BE SOLD TO PUBLIC

WASHINGTON -- A telephone scrambling device, more sophisticated than anything now on the market, is being released by the government for private use. But unlike other encryptors, this one was built to enable wiretaps if necessary.

The White House announced on Friday that the "Clipper chip" developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology would provide state-of-the- art protection against eavesdropping on corporate secrets.

AT&T; said it would immediately start putting the new technology in its products.

WHITE HOUSE SETS PRECEDENT ON GAYS

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton, meeting leaders of America's gay and lesbian community on Friday in an unprecedented White House session, denied he would be snubbing gays by being out of town during a gay march in Washington next week.

By skipping the mass march, "I mean no snub, but presidents usually don't participate in marches," Clinton said at a news conference.